Raymond Ceulemans
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Raymond Ceulemans ( born July 12, 1937 in Lier ) is a Belgian billiard players.
Raymond Ceulemans is 33 - times world champion, 44 - time European champion, was 61 times Belgian champion and is regarded in his homeland as a national hero. He continued the dominance begun by René Vingerhoedt in the 1940s and 1950s, Belgian top players in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His unique collection of titles and the fact that he was over 40 years long mitbeherrschte the pool scene and also at the age of 76 years today still playing at an international level, entitle the term " the world's best carom billiards players of all time ." Players like Frédéric Caudron continue the tradition of the Belgian top players in Carambolagebillard.
Life
At age 7, he started playing in the domestic " coffee - table " of his father. At 15, he entered Antwerp in a billiard club, but continued to play the way also excellent football. He learned the trade of the diamond cutter. In 1958 he was discovered by a second - league football club - a change but did not get it - Raymond Ceulemans opted for billiards.
His first national title he won in 1961 with 23 years ago when he was three-band master in Belgium. In 1962, he was three-band European champion and 1963 he fought his first world title in the three-band. From this point on he dominated the three-band world and won the World Cup for ten years in succession until 1973. Moreover, he won the title yet from 1975 to 1980, 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1990. 1986, 1987 and 1990, he secured additionally the overall World Cup in Three band. At the World Championship Tournament 1978 in Las Vegas, he scored an average score of 1.679 per image and thus the hitherto highest tournament - DG, as well as the highest average World Cup, which was outbid by Torbjörn Blomdahl until 1997.
He retired in 1992 for health reasons, for some time from the sport back, then returned in 1993 but returned in 1995 and won his last World Cup to date. With 60 years he played his best game of 1997 (40 points in 8 shots) and its highest DG of 2,307.
In 2001, he won a sensational 64 years once the three-band world championship. Since his hundredth international tournament victory he is called in billiard circles Mister 100
On 27 October 2012, he won his 300th game in the Dutch Eredivisie against the German National player Stefan Galla.
Title
- Three-band world champion (UMB ) 1963-1973, 1975-1980, 1983, 1985, 1990, 2001 ( 21x)
- Total three-band world cup winner (BWA ), 1986, 1987, 1990
- Three-band World Cup 9 race wins
- World Champion in cover 1968, 1976-1979, 1984 ( 6x)
- World Champion in Cadre 47/1 1976
- World champion in the outdoor game in 1969
- World Champion in the pentathlon in 1965, 1972, 1974, 1975
- European champion in the three-band 1962-1971, 1973-1983, 1987, 1992 (23x )
- European champion in the cover 1963-1967, 1969, 1970, 1977-1979, 1984-1986 ( 13x)
- European champion in the Cadre 71/2 1963, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1979
- European champion in the Cadre 47/1 1976
- European champion in the pentathlon in 1973, 1979
Honors
Works
- Raymond Ceulemans: Mister 100 Het driebandenspel. Publisher Van Belle, Brussels 1979, ISBN 90-70252-07-4.
- Ben de Graaf, Raymond Ceulemans: Het Groene rijk van Raymond Ceulemans. Edition Helios, Antwerp 1982, ISBN 90-333-0053-2.